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Through the maze of The Dining Room's skits we hear Gurney's futile, nostalgic plea for the return to the America that he knew in his youth--an American tradition of which the "dining room" is a part. Depending on the age of the spectator, one may find himself either weeping with the author over his lost childhood or tiring of Gurney's whimperings and yearning for the future, not a unretrievable past...
Evita's climb in social status has its costs, though: The innocence and ambition of her youth slowly turns into a vengeful bitterness against those she has struggled so long to become part of--the upper class. We also see her personal ambitions supersede those for her country as she sacrifices the poor in order to live in wealth...
...nightmares came true. Postwar culture after 1945 began to drown Modernism in a torrent of mass entertainment, facilitated by film, TV, records and a host of allied electronic innovations. At the same time, during the '50s and '60s, a form of institutionalized rebellion took hold among the world's youth as a cultural norm. The old, normal urge to flout authority was greatly magnified and aided by the ubiquity of mass culture...
Greenidge, a juvenile detective who grew up in the neighborhood on Western Avenue known as the Coast, spends much of his free time at the Moore Youth Center on Gilmore Street cultivating friendships with the teens...
...others notice that only the Black police officers take time to play basketball or talk with them at the youth center, while the white police "just ride by and stare at us like we're bad kids," says Kevin Dunkley...